I've been looking for a local security group that meets regularly, but haven't been able to find one. It seems like all security groups and conferences take place at either one of these cities and skip everything in between.

Does anyone have any advice for starting a local information security group?

first of all, where do you live and what do you expect from these security groups? if your looking for people with the same interest you have in technology and hacking you can start with going to hackerspaces: